His death was from anterior poliomyelitis.
From the Westford Wardsman, 16 Dec. 1916
The community was inexpressibly shocked and saddened this week to hear of the death of John Fletcher Abbot, which came Wednesday evening after a short and severe struggle with the dreaded infantile paralysis. Fletcher, as he has always been called, was stricken the first of the week and his seizure assumed very serious aspects from the first and all the skill of his local physician, trained nurses and the specialists summoned was called into requisition to alleviate his sufferings and save his life. But this proved beyond human power and death came late Wednesday evening.
John Fletcher Abbot was the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Cameron Abbot. He was born on November 29, 1898, which made him but recently pass his eighteenth birthday, just at the beginning of young manhood. He is survived besides his parents by his younger brother, Robert Abbot, and represented the fifth generation to bear the name of John Abbot, descending from one of Westford's old and respected families. His mother was before her marriage, Miss Anna Munroe Fletcher, daughter of J. Henry Fletcher, of Belmont, and granddaughter of J. Varnum Fletcher, donor of our public library.
Fletcher had recently entered the Abbot Worsted Company at Graniteville, and planned under his father's direction to learn the mill business and had been greatly interested in his work. His tragic and untimely death has cast a gloom over the community and the sincerest and most heartfelt sympathy goes out to the bereaved father, mother, brother and to the grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins.
From the Westford Wardsman, 16 Dec. 1916
The community was inexpressibly shocked and saddened this week to hear of the death of John Fletcher Abbot, which came Wednesday evening after a short and severe struggle with the dreaded infantile paralysis. Fletcher, as he has always been called, was stricken the first of the week and his seizure assumed very serious aspects from the first and all the skill of his local physician, trained nurses and the specialists summoned was called into requisition to alleviate his sufferings and save his life. But this proved beyond human power and death came late Wednesday evening.
John Fletcher Abbot was the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Cameron Abbot. He was born on November 29, 1898, which made him but recently pass his eighteenth birthday, just at the beginning of young manhood. He is survived besides his parents by his younger brother, Robert Abbot, and represented the fifth generation to bear the name of John Abbot, descending from one of Westford's old and respected families. His mother was before her marriage, Miss Anna Munroe Fletcher, daughter of J. Henry Fletcher, of Belmont, and granddaughter of J. Varnum Fletcher, donor of our public library.
Fletcher had recently entered the Abbot Worsted Company at Graniteville, and planned under his father's direction to learn the mill business and had been greatly interested in his work. His tragic and untimely death has cast a gloom over the community and the sincerest and most heartfelt sympathy goes out to the bereaved father, mother, brother and to the grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins.
His death was from anterior poliomyelitis.
From the Westford Wardsman, 16 Dec. 1916
The community was inexpressibly shocked and saddened this week to hear of the death of John Fletcher Abbot, which came Wednesday evening after a short and severe struggle with the dreaded infantile paralysis. Fletcher, as he has always been called, was stricken the first of the week and his seizure assumed very serious aspects from the first and all the skill of his local physician, trained nurses and the specialists summoned was called into requisition to alleviate his sufferings and save his life. But this proved beyond human power and death came late Wednesday evening.
John Fletcher Abbot was the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Cameron Abbot. He was born on November 29, 1898, which made him but recently pass his eighteenth birthday, just at the beginning of young manhood. He is survived besides his parents by his younger brother, Robert Abbot, and represented the fifth generation to bear the name of John Abbot, descending from one of Westford's old and respected families. His mother was before her marriage, Miss Anna Munroe Fletcher, daughter of J. Henry Fletcher, of Belmont, and granddaughter of J. Varnum Fletcher, donor of our public library.
Fletcher had recently entered the Abbot Worsted Company at Graniteville, and planned under his father's direction to learn the mill business and had been greatly interested in his work. His tragic and untimely death has cast a gloom over the community and the sincerest and most heartfelt sympathy goes out to the bereaved father, mother, brother and to the grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins.
From the Westford Wardsman, 16 Dec. 1916
The community was inexpressibly shocked and saddened this week to hear of the death of John Fletcher Abbot, which came Wednesday evening after a short and severe struggle with the dreaded infantile paralysis. Fletcher, as he has always been called, was stricken the first of the week and his seizure assumed very serious aspects from the first and all the skill of his local physician, trained nurses and the specialists summoned was called into requisition to alleviate his sufferings and save his life. But this proved beyond human power and death came late Wednesday evening.
John Fletcher Abbot was the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Cameron Abbot. He was born on November 29, 1898, which made him but recently pass his eighteenth birthday, just at the beginning of young manhood. He is survived besides his parents by his younger brother, Robert Abbot, and represented the fifth generation to bear the name of John Abbot, descending from one of Westford's old and respected families. His mother was before her marriage, Miss Anna Munroe Fletcher, daughter of J. Henry Fletcher, of Belmont, and granddaughter of J. Varnum Fletcher, donor of our public library.
Fletcher had recently entered the Abbot Worsted Company at Graniteville, and planned under his father's direction to learn the mill business and had been greatly interested in his work. His tragic and untimely death has cast a gloom over the community and the sincerest and most heartfelt sympathy goes out to the bereaved father, mother, brother and to the grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins.
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